decided to launch a four hour island wide token strike tomorrow (03 )from 8 a.m to 12 noon demanding the release of 12 Medical Students arrested by the Police this evening during the protest against Malabe Private Medical Collage.

Accordingly if the authorities fail to release the all arrested medical students by tomorrow (03) doctors will expand their trade union action further GMOA has announced.

March of Medical students organized by the Medical Faculty Students Action Committee against the court decision in granting permission to students of Malabe Private Medical Collage to register with Sri Lanka Medical Council at Lotus Road roundabout in Colombo Fort this evening (02).

Police have also arrested 12 protesting Medical students over violent behaviour it has been reported .

Police fired the tear gas and water cannons towards the student protestors when they attempted to march towards presidential secrerariet .

More than two thousand medical students had participated the protest March started at Colombo Medical Faculty premises. Then members of Inter University Students Federation have also joined the protest march which caused heavy traffic in Colombo Fort.Maradana and Punchi Borella areas.

Meanwhile Colombo Additional Magistrate Ranga Dassanayake had earlier rejected the motion filed by police seeking an issuing of injunction order to prevent the protest march.